Tips about enchanting in rp

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So I’ve decided this one here is an enchantress, being able to take requests from everything from “fiery sword” to “I want to give my ex nightmares” weaving in dark magic as well, I see a lot of fun potential here. But I’d like some tips if anyone who has rp’d as en enchanter have anything to say :slight_smile: What should you think about and such? Also I wonder if it’s a plus to have GHI or TRP Extended to make an item for the enchantment for a more immersive experience, or is it unnecessary? I haven’t used any of them, I have original the TRP3.
Feel free to make an input and also tips about darker enchantments are welcome.
Thanks :relaxed:

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I have occasionally offered enchants in RP, as a friendly favor, but then I offered actual enchants (although I may have given them fancier names…).

I like the idea of ‘expanding’ your enchanting with made-up enchants, as long as you don’t make people uber-powerful :slight_smile:

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To prevent seeming to powerful I was thinking the more potent enchants would be temporary. Like a pendant giving it’s wearer nightmares but the effect would only last a few days. I was also thinking of something more rare like enchanting something with a spell to summon a lesser void creature to attack it’s target, playing a little with the void theme for a void elf.

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For a good source of ideas regarding enchantment effects, I would recommend looking into popular RPG video games or tabletop games like DND readily available on the internet. You have a whole legion of nerds who have come up with thousands of interesting, exciting, horrifying, hilarious or generally entertaining effects.

RP is all about tastefully stealing ideas, after all.

On a site note, I’d also suggest you investigate just how common enchantments are in the world of Azeroth.

Legion gameplay experience may have made legendary, world-shattering artifacts feel like commonfare and enchanted, divine and demonic weaponry out to feel like a dime a dozen, but the super-high magic setting of Legion might be a bit too strong for many RPs that lend more towards the lower power settings, e.g. guard and military guilds which are very common.

Personally, I’d recommend you keep strong magical enchantments as either 1. Time limited or B. Require expensive reagents/components.
Otherwise you’d walk into most RPs and end up either A:) Enchanting everyone’s gear, or B:) ICly Telling people they’re idiots for not accepting a free powerup in a world so full of violence.

Also, on a side-note, it might be worth considering more commonplace uses of enchantments outside of war & battle.
For instance construction, illumination, tool making etc. Take elven architecture, which is heavily enchanted; and many of our buildings would probably collapse/fall over if the magic infusing them was to disappear.

Odds are a career enchanter has spent a lot of time working together with artificers, blacksmiths and architects.

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Thanks for the input, many good thoughts :slight_smile:

would not want that no, I will try to flesh some concepts out

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There is a lot of mileage in such a concept, I have a character, Tessarin Sunlance, she too is an Enchanter, albeit a crabby soul “You want me to make your sword glow so that the opposite sex will find you attractive? Get out, go find some back street dust pedlar, anything that I make that glows, glows for a good reason!”

What I found was quite fun was working elements of sympathetic magic into it. If you don’t already know ‘sympathetic’ magic is the act of using ingredients or methods, that echo what you want the enchantment to do. For example Tessarin’s Hat is enchanted, It protects (Not prevents, but protects) against Mind Control. It is a battered old affair, made from leather, Rhino leather in particular, because the Rhino is a stubborn beast. the Buckle on the front is of Truesilver (I seem to remember reading somewhere that Truesilver takes enchantments very well in lore), and the lining on the inside is made from the strands of a Sayaad’s whip, again, creatures known for controlling and charming others. So you basically have an item which has elements of what you want to protect against, and how you want to protect against it, bound together with a ‘source’ if you will, in the buckle.

characters would come up to her and ask for enchants IC, and I would have a little think, then give them an ‘ingredients list’ of items I would need to do their enchantment for them, almost like a mini questgiver I suppose. If they wanted to I would even run it as a short DM’d event for them.

Basically think what the Enchantment is supposed to do, and then think what ingredients would suit it. It just adds a bit more than /e Blows some magic dust on your sword, Ta-Daaa! Magic Sword!.

Cores of Elementals are good for a lot of things, each of the four elements is traditionally associated with certain qualities, Fire being warlike, water being change, Air being intellectual and Earth being resolute and sturdy.

Animal body parts, grisly as it may sound, are also a good source of reagents. Want an enchantment that increases your perception? Why you’d want a Lynx’s Eye, and a Bat’s Ear, to be ground together and turned into a paste, mixed with powdered glass (You’d obviously want to be wearing gloves for that bit) as glass is transparent and one can see through it easily. the resultant brew to be applied to the item to be so enchanted.

Basically think of what the Enchantment is going to do, and from that work backwards as to what you think would be fitting in order to make the magic happen. Sure, use the magic dusts and stuff, but people got a kick out of the idea that they needed to get ingredients, and it wasn’t just a case of “Sure take your ticket and I’ll make your doom sword of doom for you in a minute”.

Just an idea, I find it quite fun that way, but then I am a big fan of Sympathetic Magic as a concept anyway…

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Very useful information, thank you! I’m still fairly new to rp but it’s definitely some points worth working towards, I haven’t thought about “sympathetic” magic before, nor heard of it so that was very interesting, thank you :slight_smile:

(I changed the name and the forum haven’t been able to detect it until now so that’s why it looks a little weird when I post on this)

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